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Presentation Speech by Hans Hildebrand, Acting Secretary of the , on December 10, 1912 There is an old saying that times change and men change with them. If we look back on past ages we discover its truth. We, who are no longer young, have had the opportunity in our bustling lives to experience the…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 6 October 2011 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 Tomas Tranströmer The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2011 is awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”.

Swedish Biobliografisk notis John Maxwell Coetzee är född 1940 i Kapstaden, Sydafrika. Han har både tysk och engelsk bakgrund. Föräldrarna skickade honom till en engelsk skola och han växte upp med engelska som förstaspråk. I början av 1960-talet flyttade han till England och där arbetade han i början som dataprogrammerare. Han bedrev sedan studier i…

French Tomas Tranströmer est né le 15 avril 1931 à Stockholm. Sa mère Helmy est institutrice et son père Gösta Tranströmer rédacteur. Après son baccalauréat en 1950 au lycée de Södra Latin, il commence des études de lettres avec poétique, histoire de la religion et psychologie à l’université de Stockholm – matières comprises dans sa…

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Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974), son of station master Anders Johan Lagerkvist and Johanna Blad, was born in the south of Sweden. He decided early that he was going to be a writer and, after a year at the University of Uppsala, he left for Paris (1913), where he came under the influence of expressionism, especially in…

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Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1936 Eugene O’Neill’s dramatic production has been of a sombre character from the very first, and for him life as a whole quite early came to signify tragedy. This has been attributed to the bitter experiences of his youth, more especially to…

English Bioibliographical notes John Maxwell Coetzee was born in 1940 in Cape Town in South Africa. His background is both German and English. His parents sent him to an English school and he grew up using English as his first language. At the beginning of the 1960s he moved to England where he worked initially…

English Biobibliographical notes Tomas Tranströmer was born in Stockholm on 15 April 1931. His mother Helmy was a schoolteacher and his father Gösta Tranströmer a journalist. After graduating in 1950 from Södra Latin grammar school he studied literature history and poetics, the history of religion, and psychology at Stockholm University – subjects he took for…